VIDEO: Afghanistan's national army reinforcements are ambushed by the Taliban while on their way to Ghazni, a city which has been under heavy attack from the militia. 👉 A year after the Trump administration introduced its strategy for Afghanistan, the Taliban are asserting themselves on the battlefield even as U.S. officials talk up hopes for peace. That's raising questions about the viability of the American game plan for ending a war that began when some of the current U.S. troops were in dia

We were trying to remove a key Taliban commander to break his unit apart — sometimes through targeted raids, sometimes by chance when a fight erupted and we could hear him on the radio and try to vector him in. One operation pushed into the green zone along the riverbed where most villages live and where the enemy used natural features as defensive lines. The Taliban fought with defense in depth and strong local organization, which made every assault complex and dangerous. This clip shows the gr